With its inclusion onto the Candidate List, suppliers of lead-containing articles in the European Economic Area will need to assess their products for Article 33 requirements, where SVHC’s greater than 0.1% weight/weight of the individual component need to be declared to the article’s customer.

Candidate list substances are deemed of significant risk to human health and the environment, and might eventually be added to the authorization list.

Once on the authorization list, users and sellers of these substances may need to apply to ECHA for permission to sell and use these substances within the European Economic Area.

The next step though is for companies to review their products in order to identify regulatory obligations, such as Article 33 declarations, and then fulfil them.